16 Jan
2003
16 Jan
'03
17:21
Geordon VanTassle
On Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 07:21:14 GMT +0100 (which was 12:21 AM where I live), thus spake Matthias Riese on the subject of "[suse-security] Secure root alias logins":
Matthias> Actually renaming the root login is a security measure recommend in Matthias> many papers about security around.
Not having seen these papers myself, could you kindly provide me with pointers to them?
See here: http://www.nic.com/~dave/SecurityAdminGuide/SecurityAdminGuide-all.html http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/LinuxConfig/ http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwccs/security/secureos/security_tips_checklists.htm http://www.abtrusion.com/HardeningNT/10.asp Best regards, Matthias